Lunch is usually leftovers from the night before, whatever my wife packs, blasted in the microwave for 5 minutes.

And an advice to charchans... my wife packed parathas and some rice and curry today... do not blast this mix for 5 minutes... the parathas turn all hard... not much fun, unless you happen to like burnt toast

And today does not seem to be my lucky day... just as I started to write this post, accidently flipped the spoon and got rice all over the carpet... would have post this 5 minutes earlier, but was picking rice... one by one, of the floor

__________________
-----------------------------------------------

"Kisi ne sahi kaha zindagi kutti cheez hai. You live life without a care in the world not realizing that life is building a heavy load of trash that it dumps on you one fine day, breaking your back." - saneless

Dhur pai, I hope you are not that person in our colony who got embarassed in front of all ladies.

There was this "Uncle" in our colony. One Sunday morning when the Vegetable vendor pulled his "haathgaadi" of vegs and yelled out "tamate, batate, kaande, lasoon, gawar, bhopla", quite a few ladies came out to buy vegs. This guy also came to the vegetable vendor, even though he did not have a bag / utensil in his hand. He asked the vendor, "kyon be, Gawar kitne mein diye ?". Vendor replied "Che rupaiye kilo saab". Guy wanted to show off. Said "Abe, hamaare yahaan gawaar gadhon ko khilaate hai, tu Che rupaiye maang rahaa hai!!!". Vendor replied and all the ladies were smiling among themselves while the guy walked away red-faced. "Saabji, aap bhi wahi shaamil ho jaayiye, mufat mein gawaar milenge."

And today does not seem to be my lucky day... just as I started to write this post, accidently flipped the spoon and got rice all over the carpet... would have post this 5 minutes earlier, but was picking rice... one by one, of the floor

It is true that guvaar was being used as cattle feed, but because in the past it was cheap and wholesome as a cattle feed for poors.

But when guvaar is fresh and komal it is widely used as vegatable. Its somewhat good in taste too (depending upon how you prepare).

The guvaar used for cattle feed is basically matured and hard to cook ones like that.

And thats how gujjus call guvaar as cattlefeed in slang or abuse.
But it is widely used as sabji.

BTW...

Google for it and you will see it more as vegatable than cattlefeed.

Depends on what part of Gujarat...people from Northern Gujarat (Banaskantha/Mehsana/Sabarkantha) look down upon Guvaar as cattle feed....let's put it this way...its not the favorite vegetable for people out there

As for recipes...there are recipes for everything out there...for example potato/onion/cauliflower/brinjal/radish/carrots etc are not cattlefeed but guvaar is...hope you get the point

Not really....the guy did not specify gavar as the cause for his dinner not being good...a few months ago I recall DB pai was longing for gavar and so was cha pai around the same time

No offense meant to gavar fans....its just that once my turd was dangling by a gavar thread (only animals can digest that fiber) from my rear and neither gavar nor the turd would fall off despite me shaking my assz

When I was an undergrad in a certain part of Gujarat, I used to dine as a paying guest at a "mausi's" (no, not a madam)...she never cooked gavar...one gavar fan asked her why and she told that gavar was cattlefeed...and that idea stuck...I actually laughed my ass off thinking of the mausi having the turd dangling problem